Vocational schools are, by definition, focused on training people to a specific set of skills. They don’t necessarily offer everything that a college student would receive from an undergraduate education, especially one with a liberal arts focus, which (theoretically, anyway) prepares students with foundational skills like critical reasoning and pr... See more
When you have PZF, the product resonates with users not because it’s better, but because it feels extremely culturally relevant at that particular moment in time for a particular group of people. Users may or may not love your product, but for some reason they want it to win. Maybe because they hate the competitor with the “better” product. Maybe i... See more
The key is that there is near zero incremental cost to onboarding additional users, which gives Bili strong operating leverage and margin to spend on content, marketing, and platform improvements
Having all notifications in one place sounds scary: People are already struggling to stay on top of their inbox today and risk missing important messages.
The second most consistent pattern across these companies was an inseparable alignment between the product roadmap and the growth engine. Surviving in B2C is all about finding an efficient (aka cheap) growth channel.